Nashville Tech Feed #16 – Entrepreneurship in Nashville and JumpStart Foundry

By
mdave
– April 29, 2010Posted in: Featured, Podcast
 

Episode #16 of the Nashville Tech Feed focuses on entrepreneurship in Nashville and what it will take to get the city up to speed. But first we dive into an overview of Jumpstart Foundry and then what it takes to put Nashville on the map for entrepreneurship and start ups. We finish as we always do with what we’re consuming. Running time: 1hr

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Topics:

  • Jumpstart Foundry
  • Entrepreneurship in Nashville

 

Articles:

The Rise of the Fleet-Footed Start-Up – NYTimes
RIC RIES and Steven Blank think they have a better way to build a start-up, one that takes less time and money to try new ideas and find paying customers. They are leading proponents of the “lean start-up” — a fresh approach to creating companies that has attracted much attention in the last year or so among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, technologists and investors…

Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t have a rookie entrepreneur ask for advice on raising money from VCs. They usually have a fancy-looking business plan with detailed spreadsheets showing how their company will be worth billions by capturing just 1% of a market. All they need is some financing, and they’ll take the world by storm. My advice is always the same: ditch the business plan, and buy a lottery ticket. Your odds are better, and you’ll suffer less stress.

 

What We're Consuming?

Marcus - Google Reader (marcuswhitney1230 at gmail.com) / Steve Blank
Chris - Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, Twilio.com Voice & SMS API

 

Show Hosts:

David Beronja

Title:
  • Web Designer/Production
  • Founder "The Nashville Feed" blog
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Marcus Whitney

Title(s):
  • CTO at Moontoast
  • Founding Member at Jumpstart Foundry
  • Managing Partner at Remarkable Wit
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Chris Ennis

Title(s):
  • Partner at Function Interactive
  • Director of Product Development at OneRecovery.com
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About mdave

David has been using computers to create his visions since the early days of the Apple II. When the world wide web hit he dove in head first learning HTML and building his first websites. After spending a few years at a software services firm in Milwaukee he moved to Nashville and shortly after the Music Industry grabbed hold. He joined the Country Music Association as webmaster designing, building and managing the CMA Awards, CMA Music Festival and corporate websites for the 8 years. He started their social media reach-out and when he left the CMA could reach over 50,000 fans directly. David currently freelances by day, codes by night along with producing/hosting the Nashville Tech Feed a technology podcast. David was named by Billboard Magazine as one of the top 140 people in the Music Industry to follow on Twitter.